NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–25 October 2010 – The spread of the cholera outbreak in Haiti is beginning to slow down, even as humanitarian agencies continue to step up treatment and preventive measures, with the number of cases having risen to more than 3,000, including 254 deaths, the United Nations reported today. Efforts[Read More…]

HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2010.  Following the outbreak of acute diarrhea in the Artibonite region of Haiti, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams—including doctors, nurses, and logisticians—immediately traveled to the affected areas along the Artibonite River, between the cities of Saint-Marc and Mirebalais. According to Haitian health authorities, at least[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–22 October 2010 – Despite the achievements of aid agencies following January’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, the relief effort must continue through 2011, a senior United Nations humanitarian official said yesterday. “We can be proud of what the humanitarian community has accomplished, together with the Haitian people and the[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–19 October 2010 – With 1.3 million people still living in spontaneously formed camps nine months after a massive earthquake devastated Haiti, a United Nations expert today called for a shift in the focus of humanitarian operations and more urgency in launching the reconstruction process. “Haiti is still living[Read More…]

Port-au-Prince, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2010.  Today, the Clinton Foundation announced that it will — through its Haiti Relief Fund — provide $500,000 in bridge funding for a camp in Petionville run by J/P Haitian Relief Organization. The money will allow J/P HRO, whose staff is 90 percent Haitian, to continue to[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–13 September 2010 – The United Nations has launched a new operation to combat rape and gender violence in Haiti, where some 1.3 million people were made homeless by January’s devastating earthquake, with the majority still living in camps. Police and soldiers from the UN peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) and[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–3 September 2010 – The United Nations peacekeeping force in Haiti has unveiled three drainage and canal rehabilitation projects that it hopes will boost employment and reduce violence in troubled neighbourhoods of a major city. The projects will benefit the districts of Goya, Petite Anse and Ti Riviere in[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–21 August 2010 – The United Nations peacekeeping force in Haiti today called on the country’s people to respect the electoral laws after the announcement of the final list of eligible candidates for November’s presidential polls. Haiti’s election commission yesterday published a list of 19 candidates it says are[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–20 August 2010 – The plight of Haiti’s homeless since January’s catastrophic earthquake must be the top priority for all candidates in this November’s presidential and legislative elections, the United Nations peacekeeping force in the impoverished Caribbean country has stressed. The mission, known as MINUSTAH, yesterday urged the candidates[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–19 August 2010 – United Nations projects in health, education, job creation, rubble removal, reproductive health and improving access to food have been approved for Haiti as the poor Caribbean country continues its effort to rebuild after January’s catastrophic earthquake. The Interim Haitian Recovery Commission (IHRC), which was set[Read More…]